Voters Shut Out of Indiana Primary Will Have to Appeal to Higher Authority

I hope someone informs the Supreme Court’s mostly Catholic majority that their recent decision to uphold Indiana’s voter ID law prevented a convent full of elderly and disabled nuns from casting a vote in yesterday’s Democratic primary. In its decision, the court insisted the state had a legitimate interest in depriving lots of people of their right to vote because it would deter phantom fraudsters, even though the state has never had a single documented case of voter impersonation fraud. Clearly, the justices hadn’t anticipated the sisters, who don’t drive and didn’t have much need of ID in the convent. Now shut out of court and the voting booth, the Indiana brides of Christ will have to appeal to God for a remedy.